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Jimmy was the platoon leader, which meant he was responsible for his men. Often Jimmy was distracted by his fantasy love life, this resulted in sloppy behavior – they didn’t check for mines, enemy traps, etc. While Jimmy was busy thinking about his fantasies Ted went out of their “camp” to use the restroom. As he was walking back he was shot in the back of the head causing an instant death. Although this was not directly Jimmy’s fault, he blames himself for it and will forever carry an emotional burden.

To begin, the warden informs Jimmy about his father death, Jimmy is left in disbelieve. “Just as well, because your family doesn’t want you to attend the funeral service (Baca 233).” Then, when Jimmy is released from prison he uncovers that his uncle Julian, called the warden, requesting that Jimmy dose not attend the funeral of Damacio Baca. Julian’s action is due to Damacio leaving Jimmy a twenty thousand dollars insurance policy for Jimmy, so he could a hire a good lawyer and defend his case. However his uncles took the money and spent it on a liquor license (Baca 235). Jimmy realizes prison is killing his humanity, he could not cry to grieve over his father’s death even though is emotions were genuine. Finally Jimmy honors Damacio by vowing that prison system will not break his sprite or stain his

The fate of jimmy is ambiguous because Lisa cannot communicate effectively with the dead. When Lisa goes to the spirit world Ma-ma-oo says that her gift is like Oxasuli, "unless you know how to use it" she says, "it will kill you"(Robinson 226). My argument is that, though Lisa is not dead, her gift has certainly killed her sense of identity. As a person, Lisa is unsociable and does not understand the issues behind her questions. She communicates as effectively with the dead as she does the living, she frequently misunderstands social queues and even when she does recognize her mistakes, she doesn't care. We can see this

Trying to make ends meet, he turns to selling drugs. By the time Jimmy finds love ones more and decides to settle down tragedy occurs. Trying to escaping from a drug bust at a friend’s house his attempts end up with a conviction for murder. Due to his illiteracy, Jimmy couldn’t read the false accusations he never committed.

Jimmy Cross knows Martha does not love him that not a bomb cell of his life. However he still clinging, and hoping and fantasizing on the idea of Martha is in love him. Martha is connected to life back home that is wonderful and beautiful. O’Brien writes “He would image romantic camping trips into the mountains in New Hampshire.” (O’Brien). She represents everything soft, tender like poetry. “About her respect for Chaucer and her great affection for Virginia Woolf. She often quoted lines of poetry,” (O’Brien’s). That is, unlike than the super masculine world of war that he is facing now. He is now living hard, harsh and difficult world of war all the time. First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross needs obsession with Martha because that is his brain’s survival mechanism. Martha writes Jimmy Cross about the world she belongs at, gives him fantasies of the world back home to help him survive The Vietnam

2.Jimmy fall in love with Martha at some point before the story but his love is apparently unrequited. He for some reason blames himself for Ted death even though he did not cause it. And Ted seems to have a tranquilizer addiction which explains why he has so much.

(Jimmy was only five years old ). As a child not raised in a nuclear family, Jimmy was disregarded by his mom and dad which shape his adulthood. Jimmy would only solve his problem by relocating to a new place to fit him, however, all of his attempts only lead his into trouble. At the beginning, Jimmy set most of his time in an orphanage, later in a detention center, and eventually spend a few years  in

Jimmy is both betrayed and a betrayer, but is ultimately not able to forgive himself or Abbad, so he cannot move on and consequently turns to

He needed to unite his troops into one, and let them all know they are all in this war together, like it or not. Jimmy came to the realization that in a time of war you should have no friends. If you take the time to know the person then you are only getting yourself emotionally attached to that person, and when it comes time to act with your mind not your emotions you will hesitate therefore putting all of your men’s lives at risk. Jimmy could not have that in his squadron. He needed to overcome another great hurdle in his strive for complete leadership. Individuality against Conformity. Everyone in the story had there own things they carried, some carried lucky pebbles like Jimmy and others carried the New Testament like Kiowa.  Jimmy needed to find a way to unite everyone. They all needed to be soldiers. Jimmy decided to lead by example, when he tossed the lucky pebble away and burned his pictures, he intended for everyone to

5.Some people change after a relationship and the same goes for Jimmy except his was an obsession instead. Jimmy obsessed about Martha but Ted Lavender’s death taught Jimmy to change himself. Jimmy no longer wishes to fantasize about Martha and will always blame himself for Ted’s death. Jimmy will assume a more guardian position in order to not repeat another Ted situation. Ted’s death opened Jimmy’s eyes that he will never be with Martha despite still loving her. Jimmy lost the hope and will to fight for Martha but now will fight for his men as Jimmy hope is that his men will live and return to those that love

The protagonist of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House is Eleanor Vance, an emotionally underdeveloped young woman with a dark past. As a character, she has a deep connection to the broad theme of family within the novel, and more specifically, how the lack of family when it is desperately needed leads to emptiness.

Jimmy Cross is a protagonist because the story is about him dealing with the loss of his friend Tim Lavender. Cross is a lieutenant of the Alpha Company fighting the war in Vietnam. He does not care about the war and he does not want to be a leader . Jimmy is insecure about everything he does and he wonders if he makes the right decisions. His way of escaping is to day dream about Martha. She is an English major at Mount Sebastian, New Jersey and she sends him photos and letters regularly. She writes poetry letters and never mentions the war. Her letters are very friendly, full of all her activities and details of her life. She always signs her letters “Love Martha”(p.315), but she is not in love with him. He know this but dreams of her and him in a relationship. He carries Martha’s letters with him in a backpack and looks at them every night while dreaming about how his life could be with her intimately. He carries a

Ironically, Jimmy was famous for robbing banks and the woman he was marrying was the banker's daughter. This relates to the theme of change because he didn't neither try nor want to rob the bank which shows that Jimmy has

The crisp in Jimmy Cross’s imagination came in this story when Jimmy receives a pebble from Martha, as a good luck charm, before Lavender’s death. The pebble for Jimmy became like a materialized spiritual object. It reflected all the love that Jimmy had for Martha. Paragraph 39 “he carried the pebble in his mouth, turning it with his tongue, tasting the sea salts and moisture. His mind wandered. He had difficulty keeping his attention on the war.” These lines give evidence that the pebble had gained immense substance in the life of Jimmy Cross. It was actually that he had started worshipping

After coming home with his mother, Jimmy now at the age of 11, is now living in Los Angleus. James’ mother soon enrolled him into Borendo Grammer School in Downtown L.A., this is also the same school where Doolittle